Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World
| Dates: | 24 January 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Elliott Green |
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Elliott Green (LSE) explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy of rural life', industrialization makes societies more ethnically homogenous. More speci?cally, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value of rural land, leading people to identify less with narrow rural identities in favour of broader identities that can aid them in navigating the formal urban economy. Using large-scale datasets that span the globe as well as detailed case studies ranging from mid-twentieth-century Turkey to contemporary Botswana, Somalia and Uganda, as well as evidence from Native Americans in the United States and the M?ori in New Zealand, Industrialization and Assimilation provides a new framework to understand the origins of modern ethnic identities.
Speaker
Elliott Green
Role: Professor in Development Studies
Organisation: LSE
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Humanities Bridgeford Street
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